3 Alan Bennett Quotes on Culture

Alan Bennett quotes on culture

10. Headmaster: Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

21. The Channel is a slipper-bath of irony through which we pass these serious Continentals in order not to be infected by their gloom.

23. However, living in Tel Aviv, he was spared the fate of equivalent figures in English culture, an endless round of arts programmes where those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will be remembered only for remembering someone else.